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|Yuan-Chi Chang, Christian Lang, Apostol Natsev, Sriram Padmanabhan, Min Wang, Ioana Stanoi
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The present invention relates to information integration techniques and, more particularly, to the operation of similarity-based searches for information items having multiple feature attributes. It details algorithms that perform online scheduling of item read operations, partial join operations and memory or disk swapping operations to reduce overall response time under a given memory constraint.
Objects stored in multimedia or e-commerce repositories are typically described by a number of feature attributes, for example the color and size of an article of clothing. The objects stored in these repositories typically have identical or overlapping attribute values, e.g., different articles of clothing can have the same size. Typically, these repositories have memory constraints resulting from their use in the context of larger systems, requiring that memory capacity be shared with other concurrent applications.
Common queries over the objects stored in these repositories are targeted at retrieving the k best matching objects with respect to multiple attributes, e.g., finding the 10 best matching shirts having the size XL and color blue. Since many e-commerce and multimedia applications are highly interactive, the results to these queries are provided in an incremental fashion. For example, the first 10-best matches are provided to the requester first and typically within a very short period of time on the order of seconds. Typically, a response time of the order of seconds prohibits an exhaustive search over the entire repository. While the requestor is inspecting the initial grouping of matched results, the next 10-best matches are obtained and held until the requester asks for them.
Different methods have been used to provide for the ranking of the results. One method is the table-based approach. The table-based approach assumes that a complete ranking is given for each one of the feature attributes to be used to generate results to the query. Another approach is the incremental information join approach. Incremental approaches assume that only the first few rankings are known but that more can be acquired at a later time.
When complete rankings of the feature attributes are available in table format, common cost-based optimization techniques can be applied to generate results to the queries and to sort the results based upon the distances of the results to the desired objects. An example of common cost-based optimization techniques is described in Surajit Chaudhuri, "An Overview of Query Optimization in Relational Systems," Proceedings of the 17th ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pp. 34-43, Seattle, Wash. (1998). The common cost-based optimization techniques, however, have long associated response times, making them unsuitable for an interactive query applications.
Incremental approaches are typically based on Fagin's Algorithm (FA). A description of FA can be found in Ronald Fagin, "Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems," Proceedings of the 15th ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pp. 216-226, Montreal, Canada (1996). In FA, each ranked feature attribute is viewed as an incoming stream, and the goal is to generate an outgoing stream of objects whose ranks are computed using a monotonic aggregation function. Accesses to the head of the stream, the next best match for this feature, pay a sorted read cost, whereas accesses to any object in the stream, via object ID, pay a random read cost. FA attempts to minimize the overall number of object reads by assuming that the aggregation function is monotonic and reading k objects sequentially from each stream, where k is the number of desired results to the query. The. monotonicity of the aggregation function guarantees that the overall top-k objects are among those read objects. In order to compute the rank of each read object, random accesses are performed to the streams where that object was not yet seen.
Several improvements of this algorithm were suggested in order to reduce the amount of objects to read sequentially from each incoming stream during query processing. Examples include the Threshold Algorithm (TA) as described in Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, and Moni Naor, "Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pp. 102-113 (2001), and the Quick-Combine Algorithm (QA) as described in Ulrich Guntzer, Wolf-Tilo Balke, and Werner Kieβling, "Optimizing Multi-Feature Queries for Image Databases," Proceedings of the 26th VLDB Conference, pp. 419-428, Cairo, Egypt (2000). Instead of reading k objects from each stream, TA stops reading as soon as k objects are found having an aggregated distance less than a pre-defined threshold. This threshold is computed by combining the distances of the last sequentially read object of each stream. In general, this threshold increases with each sorted read access since the distances are monotonically increasing and the combination function is monotonic. QA uses a similar idea as TA but attempts to reach the termination condition faster. Since the. stream whose distance increases most will cause the highest increase in the threshold value, QA tries to read more objects from this stream.
Other approaches attempt to minimize the number of object reads by combining the index structures of each feature attribute into a common indexing scheme as illustrated, for example, in Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, and Pavel Zezula, "Processing Complex Similarity Queries with Distance-based Access Methods," Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology, pp. 9-23, Valencia, Spain (1998). These approaches are prohibitive in distributed settings. Overall, these approaches try to minimize the number of object accesses but fail to take into account memory constraints and disk/memory swapping costs.
In Surajit Chaudhuri and Luis Gravano, "Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories," Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Data, pp. 96-102, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (1996), a hybrid between the table-based approach and the incremental approach is presented. The cost optimization is performed before query execution and may not lead to a query plan with minimal cost since it is based on Fagin's first algorithm. Furthermore, the work is restricted to a small number of aggregation functions and does not easily extend to incremental query processing. For certain data distributions, the algorithm does not read enough objects for each feature attribute and can therefore not yield any result. This problem occurs because the query plan is computed statically before the query execution.
In the pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/137,032 filed Nov. 6, 2003, which is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety, a framework for incrementally joining ranked lists while minimizing response time is presented. That framework, however, does not take memory constraints and disk or memory swapping costs into account but assumes there is always sufficient memory available.
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for reducing the response time of ranked multi-feature queries under memory constrained conditions. Methods in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention take into account the cost to retrieve an object from a data source, the cost to swap data between a memory location and an external storage disk, and the cost for in-memory join operations in order to reduce the overall response time. A plurality of block combinations are generated to provide a window of future attribute combinations that can be used to generate query results. Although the block combinations are generated based upon an aggregated ranking, the order in which the combinations are selected to produce query results can be changed. In particular, an order for the block combinations is determined that reduces the expected response time to the query as computed from the current blocks contained in a memory location, the status of the data groups containing the blocks and costs associated with input and output operations.
In addition, an external memory device such as a disk buffer that can store data blocks is used for swapping data in and out of memory. Methods in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention also use an empty block buffer to maintain and track of empty data blocks. Although the empty data buffer can reduce the overall amount of memory available, removing empty blocks from the primary memory location opens memory space to be used for block combinations and accelerates the query process.
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The data groups 14 contain the objects over which the queries are conducted. These objects can be any item to which attributes or features can be ascribed. Suitable objects include, but are not limited to, clothing, automobiles, houses, electronics, computer equipment, home furnishings, furniture, appliances, musical recordings, movies, television programs, restaurants and combinations thereof. Although the objects can be randomly disposed within the data groups 14, preferably, the objects are arranged within the data groups to facilitate sorted access to any given set of objects. In one embodiment, each data group is associated with an attribute of the objects over which the query is being conducted. For example, if the query is being conducted over clothing, then data groups are provided for attributes associated with an article of clothing, e.g. type of clothing, size, color, style, material, etc. In addition to being placed within a data group based on a given attribute, the objects contained within each data group are sorted into one or a plurality of blocks 18. Each block 18 within a given data group 14 contains all the objects having the same value for the attribute associated with that data group. Therefore, a given object appears a plurality of data groups 14. Any suitable structure can be used for the data group including multiple rows in a single table disposed in a single database to multiple remote database systems, one each for each object or attribute.
Disposed between the query governor 12 and the data groups 14 and in communication therewith is a query result assembly system 20. The system 20 receives queries 16 form the query governor 12 and returns query results 22 to the query governor 12. The system 20 uses the blocks 18 within the data groups 14 to generate the results to the query, which is typically an attribute-based query in that the query identifies the preferred or desired attributes in the objects. The system 20 is capable of receiving blocks 24 from each data group and of using the received blocks to generate the query results. In order to facilitate receipt of the blocks and assembly of the results, the system 20 includes a memory location or memory buffer area 26. The memory location 26 has a pre-determined size that is preferably a fixed size, i.e. the memory location is capable of storing a pre-defined number of blocks. In addition, the system can alternatively include a second dedicated memory location or look-ahead window 28. As with the first or primary memory location 26, the second dedicated memory location has a pre-determined capacity that is preferably of fixed size. An optional empty block buffer 30 having a fixed size can also be provided in the system 20. In order to provide for additional or overflow storage space, for example, for swapping of blocks that are not needed for current queries, an optional external memory device 32 is provided. Suitable external memory devices include disk drives, e.g. flopping disk drives and hard disk drives, and optical media located external to but in communication with the system 20. In one embodiment, all of the components except for the external memory device 32 are resident within the memory contained in the system 20.
The query governor 12 submits queries including an identification of search parameters and attribute values to the system 12, and the system 20 forwards these queries to the data sources 14 to retrieve blocks of objects 18 that represent the closest match for the desired attribute values. The retrieved blocks are joined together or recombined in the memory buffer area 26 of the system 20 to generated results to the query. If necessary, additional block combinations are identified, and the associated blocks are stored in the look-ahead window 28. In addition, empty data blocks are identified, marked as empty and stored in the empty block buffer 30. As necessary, data blocks are swapped out to or in from the external memory device 32. The generated results are returned to the query governor 12 by the system 20. The order that the results are returned in is determined by an aggregated score or weight associated with each result based upon the values of the attributes used to generate that result.
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One or more attribute-based queries of the objects are identified 42. The attribute-based queries contain an identification of the parameters, for example user-defined parameters, that are desired in the objects. These parameters include the desired values for one or more attributes associated with the objects. Since the attributes associated with each object contain an identification of the type of attribute and a value for that attribute, a variance or distance is defined between the desired attribute value as identified in the query parameters and the attribute values associated with the objects over which the query is conducted. These distances or variances, for example how closely the color of a given object or group of objects matches the desired color, are used to produce results to the attribute-based query.
In order to facilitate the use of these variances, the objects within each data group are sorted into a plurality of blocks 44. Preferably, the objects are sorted using index structures that provide for fast, sorted retrieval of the blocks and objects without incurring additional cost. Examples of suitable index structures include, but are not limited to B-tree and R-tree structures. Each block has a common attribute value for the objects contained within it. This value can be based upon an assigned rank calculated from the identified query. Preferably, each block within a given data group contains the object within that data group that have substantially the same value for the attribute associated with that data group. For example, if the data group is associated with the attribute of size, then suitable blocks are small, medium and large. These blocks are used to generate results for the identified attribute-based query. In one embodiment, each data grouping allows only sorted access, i.e., reading objects in increasing attribute value order; however, the values and their distances for each attribute list are known in advance.
In one embodiment of using the blocks to generate the results to the query, combinations of the blocks are used to generate lists of objects. For example, if the query is looking for blue shirts size large, then blocks are obtained for blue, shirts and large, and objects resulting from the combination of these blocks are identified. Therefore, given the data groupings and blocks contained therein, a plurality of combinations of the blocks are identified 46 such that each combination yields a plurality of objects. Each one of the combinations are ranked 48 in accordance with the distance or variance between the desired attributes values and attributes associated with the resulting objects such that the lower the variance the higher the rank.
In one embodiment, a monotonic aggregation function of the attributes, t(x1, . . . , xd), is used to determine the top k objects having the shortest aggregated distances, i.e. lowest variance or highest rank, and the attributes associated with those top k objects. A middleware aggregation problem with no random access is discussed in Ronald Fagin, Amnon Lotem, and Moni Naor, "Optimal Aggregation Algorithms for Middleware," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems, pp. 102-113 (2001). The algorithm discussed therein, known as Fagin's algorithm, is unsuitable for use with methods in accordance with the present invention for two reasons. First, Fagin's no random access algorithm (NRA) maintains one record for each object that has been seen, and these records need to be updated in each step. Maintaining all these records results in too many I/O operations and has a high storage or memory cost, which is incompatible with systems having low or fixed available memory. Second, the NRA is constructed for cases where the attributes are different for all the objects. Often, however, many objects share the same attribute value, e.g., many shirts have the size XL. The block-based algorithm in accordance with the present invention is better suited for conducting queries using limited memory space and on blocks of objects having common attribute values.
The number of query results or objects to be reported are identified 50. Results to the query are then generated until the number of desired query results is reached or there are no more results available. Therefore, a determination of whether or not more results are needed is made 52. If no more results are needed, then the process of generating objects is stopped. If the number of results has not been exceeded, then a determination is made about whether any additional block combinations are available 54 for generating results. If no more results are available, then the process is stopped. If additional results, i.e. additional block combinations, are available, then the process selects another block combination. In one embodiment, the bock combination having the highest rank, that has not already been used, is selected 56.
In one embodiment, the plurality of blocks contained in data group or attribute list Ai are denoted by Ai[1], Ai[2], . . . . Ai[d]. The distances of these blocks or the variance of the attribute values contained in each one of these blocks from the desired value for the attribute associated with that data group are si[1], si[2], . . . , si[d]. Preferably, the assumption is made that si[1]≦si[2]≦ . . . . ≦si[d]. A block-based combination or join is denoted by a d-tuple J=(j1, . . . , jd), which represents the join of blocks A1[j1], . . . , Ad[jd]. The result of the aggregation function, t, applied to these blocks is t(J)=t(s1[j1], . . . , sd[d]) and is referred to as the distance or variance of J. Selecting the block combination having the highest rank, can be achieved by selecting the combination having the lowest distance or variance. In one embodiment, the distances, si[j] associated with all of the blocks are known in advance, and all possible block combinations can be enumerated by the non-decreasing order of these distances.
In one embodiment, the resulting objects are created using blocks of objects stored in a memory location having a pre-determined size. Therefore, once the combination having the highest rank is selected, the blocks used in this combination are identified. Some of these blocks may already be resident in one of the memory locations of the system, and other blocks may need to be loaded into one of the memory locations. Therefore, the blocks that need to be loaded into one of the memory locations are identified 58. The blocks associated with the selected combination are then placed into a memory location 60. Placing the blocks into the memory location includes loading blocks into the memory location from the data groups, swapping blocks from the memory location to an external memory device, moving blocks to an empty block buffer, discarding blocks from the memory location and combinations thereof. In one embodiment as illustrated in
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In addition to reducing the memory requirements associated with conducting the query, methods and systems in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention minimize the overall number of loads and swaps required to produce the query results. In general, the problem of reducing the number of loads and swaps is NP-hard when the number of attributes d≧4. Due to this hardness result, methods in accordance with the present invention use the number of buffer misses, i.e. the number of new blocks that need to be loaded into the memory location, as a factor in selecting the next block combination. In one embodiment, the blocks that are currently in memory and the blocks having to be loaded into or swapped out of memory are analyzed.
In one embodiment, the memory location, having a predetermined size, can hold at most M objects contained in the blocks. Since blocks of objects are loaded into the memory location before any join operations are performed, exemplary methods in accordance with the present invention provide for the creation of sufficient space in the memory location. In one embodiment when the memory location is substantially full, the external memory device is used to swap objects in and out. These swapping operations, both in and out, are referred to as I/O's. In one embodiment, each I/O operation reads or writes a block containing at most about B objects. These block-based sorted accesses are referred to as loads, and each load operation reads a block containing up to about B objects. Since the cost of loads varies from application to application, accounting for each load is handled separately. The overall efficiency of methods conducted in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention is measured using the number of loads, the number of I/O's, the number of joins and the overall running time of the algorithm used to generate the results. Therefore, cost can be minimized by minimizing the number of I/O's, the number of joins and the overall running time of the algorithm.
Methods for generating results to the attribute-based queries in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention generate a sequence of load, swap and join operations that return the top-k objects while reducing the overall response time. This overall response time is computed as the sum of the time for each operation in the sequence. For example, if the sequence is "load a block from data group 1, load a block from data group 2, swap in block 7 for external storage device and join blocks 3 and 7″, then the overall time is the summation of the time for 2 loads, 1 swap, and 1 join operation.
Since load is the most costly operation, the number of loads or accesses to the data groups are preferably minimized. In one embodiment, a join or block combination having the highest rank or minimum distance that has not already been used is selected, and the required blocks are placed, i.e. loaded or swapped, in the memory location so that the necessary join can be performed in system memory to create the results to the query. When an insufficient amount of memory exists in the primary memory location to swap in or load blocks, one or more blocks are discarded or swapped out. Since multiple combinations can have the same rank and blocks that are discarded or swapped out for a first combination may be needed later for a second combination having substantially the same rank as the first combination, methods in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention provide for the manipulation of multiple combinations to minimize the number of loads.
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In one embodiment, in addition to considering a single block combination having the fewest associated loads and swaps, the number of loads and swaps associated with the sequence of selection of the plurality of block combinations is considered. This embodiment is particularly useful when each combination in the plurality of identified combinations has substantially the same rank. Considering the overall sequence of selecting the plurality of combinations accounts for blocks that may be swapped or discarded initially that may be required, i.e. loaded, for subsequent combinations. In general, this heuristics keeps blocks in memory that are needed in the near future, reducing the cost due to expensive swapping and re-loading operations.
The effective length or size of the look-ahead window can be expanded by the selection of the notation used for the block combinations. In one embodiment, a notation, for example "*" is introduced to represent all blocks not yet accessed from a particular data group. For example, if d=3, and blocks 2, 2 and 3 were already loaded from the three data sources, respectively, then (1, 2, *) represents joins (1, 2, 4), (1, 2, 5), . . . , and (2, *, *) represents all possible joins that involve A1[2], one of A2[3], A2[4], . . . and one of A3[4], A3[5], . . . . Therefore, when blocks are placed in the memory location, an identification of the current block in the selected combination and an identification of blocks in each attribute that have not yet been accessed are placed into the memory location.
When a block combination is added to the dedicated memory location or look-ahead window, each "*" is interpreted as the next block to be loaded from the corresponding data group. For example, (1, 2, *) as given above is interpreted as (1, 2, 4), and (2, *, *) is interpreted as (2, 3, 4), because all other joins represented by (2, *, *) would be selected ahead of (2,3,4) due to the fact that the ranks of these blocks combinations are no greater than (2, 3, 4) as provided by the monotonicity of the aggregation function and the same number of buffer misses associated with (2, 3, 4) will be associated with subsequent block combinations since their already loaded part (A1[2] in this example) is the same as (2, 3, 4) and subsequent combinations yield the same number of unloaded blocks. Therefore, only these block combinations are considered when choosing the next combination to be performed, increasing the effective length of the look-ahead window. The determination of which blocks to move or swap to the external storage device is not affected by the use of this notation, because if a block is in the memory location, that block was loaded from the data group and will not be covered by any of the "*", which indicate blocks that have not yet been loaded.
In one embodiment, to apply these representations an initial representation of (*, *, *) is used, and the block representations are updated as block combinations are selected from the data groups. When A1[j] is selected and placed in the primary memory location, all block combinations having a "*" as their ith element are split into j and "*". For example, if A3[4] is loaded in the example discussed above, (1, 2, *) is split into (1, 2, 4) and (1, 2, *), and (2, *, *) is split into (2, *, 4) and (2, *, *). Therefore, each pending join is covered by only one representation. Using this notation in accordance with the present invention, only the block combinations that have the same next lowest distance are materialized, and subsequent block combinations are computed at a later time as needed or desired. In addition, use of this notation alleviates the need to know the distances or ranks of all blocks or block combinations in advance at the same time.
In one embodiment, partial combination results are used to further enhance the computational and storage efficiency of methods in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention. Subcombinations of blocks, for example 2-way sub-combinations, are often used multiple times by different full block combinations. As an example, the result of joining blocks A1[1] and A2[2] can be reused for all joins of the form (1, 2, *). The use of subcombinations of blocks reduces the numbers of I/O's and saves memory storage space since the partial results or subcombinations are often significantly smaller than the individual blocks.
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The query provided by the query governor includes query parameters including an identification of the desired objects, the attributes required in these objects and the ordering of the values of these attributes. The ordering of the attribute values includes an identification of which attributes are most important and the order in which attribute values are desired. For example, the ordering of attributes could indicate that the size must be large and that the preferred colors are blue, yellow and green or that various shades of blue are desired before other colors. In one embodiment, as illustrated by
In another embodiment as illustrated in
The present invention is also directed to a computer readable medium containing a computer executable code that when read by a computer causes the computer to perform a method for conducting an attribute-based query over objects in accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention and to the computer executable code itself. The computer executable code can be stored on any suitable storage medium or database, including databases in communication with and accessible by the query governor 12, the merge component 20 or the data sources 14, and can be executed on any suitable hardware platform as are known and available in the art.
While it is apparent that the illustrative embodiments of the invention disclosed herein fulfill the objectives of the present invention, it is appreciated that numerous modifications and other embodiments may be devised by those skilled in the art. Additionally, feature(s) and/or element(s) from any embodiment may be used singly or in combination with other embodiment(s). Therefore, it will be understood that the appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications and embodiments, which would come within the spirit and scope of the present invention.
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RICHMOND, Va. — NASCAR will have a new champion. For now, it has yet another conspiracy.
Reigning champion Brad Keselowski failed to make the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship Saturday night when an ill-timed caution ruined his run at Richmond International Raceway. Same thing happened to Ryan Newman, who used a pass on eventual winner Carl Edwards with 10 laps to go to take the lead for what should have been enough to get in the Chase.
Then Clint Bowyer spun three laps later to bring out a caution that ruined Newman's race. The benefactor? Martin Truex Jr., Bowyer's teammate at Michael Waltrip Racing, who struggled the entire race.
Newman and Truex were locked into a race for the second of two wild cards in the 12-driver Chase field, and the race win would give it to Newman. Only he lost the lead on pit road, wound up finishing third, and Truex grabbed the final spot in the Chase.
Conspiracy theorists immediately accused Bowyer of spinning on purpose to help his teammate, and a tweet from Bowyer friend Blake Shelton didn't help his cause: "Y'all should follow @ClintBowyer!!! The definition of team player!!!" the country music star posted on Twitter.
A despondent Newman wasn't sure if Bowyer's spin was legitimate.
"They are teammates. I don't know if he looked at the scoring pylon, knew I was leading, it doesn't matter," Newman said. "If that was the case, I'll find out one way or the other. At the same time we still had the opportunity to make our own destiny and win it on pit road, and we didn't. That being said, we're out."
Truex, who broke his right wrist two weeks ago in a crash at Bristol and has been racing with a cast, said he had no idea who even caused the caution.
"I didn't even know it happened until after the race," Truex said. "I raced my (butt) off all night long. That's all I can do. I tell my crew chief what my car is doing, what I need to go faster. That was enough to worry about. I don't have to worry about any other people out on the racetrack. I didn't even know that (Bowyer) brought out the caution until after the race."
Bowyer, who led 72 laps earlier in the race, denied any wrongdoing and said he simply lost the handling on his car. He said it was no different than Jimmie Johnson, who hit the wall earlier in the race to bring out the caution that jumbled the field and ultimately ruined Keselowski's Chase bid.
"I think we had something going wrong. We went from a car capable of winning the race, leading, to … just went straight backwards," Bowyer said. "My car was tight as hell, (Johnson) blew a tire and hit the wall. I'm telling you, I was the next one. I know it's a lot of fun for you guys to write a lot of whacky things. Go ahead if you want to, get creative. But don't look too much into it."
Bowyer's explanation seemed suspicious, at least according to a replay ESPN showed of him immediately after the race. It was the view from the in-car camera in his Toyota, and included his team communications.
"Thirty-nine is going to win the race," Bowyer is told about Newman.
"Well, that kind of sucks," Bowyer replied.
"Is your arm starting to hurt?" crew chief Brian Pattie asked. After a pause, Pattie said, "I bet it's hot in there. Itch it."


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Carlisle man bombarded ex-partner with texts, court told
Last updated at 12:29, Wednesday, 25 April 2012
A father has admitted bombarding his ex-partner with phone calls and sitting outside her work.
Stephen Lee Wilde, 28, of Coney Street, Carlisle, had been with Kelly Shaw for 12 years before their relationship broke up in January this year.
Carlisle Magistrates' Court heard how Wilde took the break-up badly.
Between February 9 and February 20, Miss Shaw received phone calls both on her mobile and at work from Wilde.
In some he was insulting, in others he didn't speak.
He also accessed her online mobile phone – changing the password to lock her out – and began sending numerous "threatening" text messages to Robert Strong, Miss Shaw's partner.
The court heard that Mr Strong did not take the threats seriously, and deleted the messages.
Magistrates adjourned the case for pre-sentence reports.
Wilde admitted harassment and was bailed prior to being sentenced at the magistrates' court on May 14.
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I'm a pretty big BYU fan and even I'm asking myself--- Why? Why is Dick writing this article at this point in the year and about this position after this season? Are you trying to give a not so subtle hint to Anae to run more TE plays? Do you think he hasn't just straight up been told that by a few thousand people by now?
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I don't see how next year's offense succeeds without a solid tight end air attack, which has gone missing for years now. It was awesome to see flashes of it in the Boise State game, then it disappeared again.
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Yes, BYU has (almost) always had fantastic Tight Ends who were an integral part of the Offense. I'm not sure why Tight Ends have been abandoned the past few years, but we need to get back to using them in the right/aggressive way!
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You have to wonder if the Denver Broncos executive VP of football operations is just going through the motions taking time to talk to Notre Dames Manti Te'o. The Broncos do need some defensive help without question. The first place Elway and the Broncos should focus on is getting a great corner back that will stop the big plays from taking place. It was the Broncos secondary that left the Broncos vulnerable in the NFL play-offs. The Broncos defensive secondary gave up far too many big plays to the Ravens.
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So if you want to play this game Vincent Nguyen fine than. Ill just ask you some questions. Why you care if I suicide or not?? Ive already said it 3 times already and you called the cops everytime falsifying the information to them. If I was alive all you would care about is your own goals/dreams with me you know it isn't right. You think is good that I pay so much attention to you? Really!! Why do you bother telling me every single detail of your life? You know that really restricts me right? If you don't like girls I feel like I have to not be around them just because you feel that way. Seriously I never wanted a relationship with you yet you try to force it. Theres no point in keeping it not so just stay out of my life ok? Ive just had enough of you. Go ahead and call the police again Ill show them this post, doesnt matter if you remove it. Anyways I only said it because I dont care about your goals/dreams it conflicts with mine. You think I like you getting in my way for every single thing I write to you. I said it before I will talk to everyone except you. You can be gone like the parasite you are in my life!! Anyways move on with your life do you have something better to do than to focus on me so much?? I did what I did and glad that was the only way you would go away from me. Admit it already you would of said something like what about me. I dont like the way things are, etc & you know it! Blaming & complaining about me really won't solve anything. You bullied me first by saying all these things to me that were unnecessary like your family is superior to me. Dont even try to deny it. You dont want a relationship to me just want to be superior to me and honestly you think that will get you anywhere? Anyways this is resolved now why waste your time & mine? unless you dont even care about your time so have to ruin it for others? I didn't even want you to read the email thought you wouldn't why did you if your going to do it if you like me than ill make sure to piss you off like hell from now on. I dont want you to like me you will just get in my way and be annoying in my life & to me. Even if I did tell you this you will make me feel bad everytime is the truth you just can't even accept it!! Anyways I have every right to talk about my sucide and mention you in the story. Trying to censor what Im trying to say now? I will make it clear not going to suicide but I won't even give a damn about you either. I know you will get pissed off over every single thing even if its just throwing water in your face. Bye.
Well just going to say it Vincent Nguyen.
I dont care if you kill yourself because of something I wrote about you either directly or indirectly I never wanted to be involved but you kept insisting it (im talking about cyberbullying here). Or because of me. You think it helps me talking to you it don't. Your not that important in my life so don't act like it. And another thing is not even over what you think that because you graduate University you will be great or something are you? Is not like you can dictate my life even if you wanted to (not now at least there is a reason im telling you this though one you don't need to know). Ill make sure that your never involved in my life again. Is not like I need you in my life seriously I will just hire someone to take me somewhere or learn to drive myself. I dont need to feel bad or guilty because you feel that you helped me so much and want so much attention for it in return. I have better things to do than focus on you all day and feel sorry for you my whole life because you don't have what you want because of me. If your going to be like that than just die, I really have nothing else to say.
hah. Vincent Nguyen I got this now. I could still meet people but not be in a relationship with them. Just because I meet/talk to someone doesn't mean I have to be involved with them heh now I know exactly what to do now Im more relieved. Screw it being about you for once its about meeeee now :).
Well all I can say is lol Vincent Nguyen. Expect me to pay attention to you so much and this was the outcome. Even if you know what to do now doubt you will in the future. You can't do anything for me and I know that now look I have a community to look after and I don't feel like paying attention to you. Anyways I gave you my number if you want to call me but don't expect me to care about you this time. I don't even have your number anymore & my original one probably changed to phone plans. Don't think I care about you because I don't just interested in what you will actually do now without my so called love & support that you think I gave you.
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